• driving_crooner
    1251·
    8 months ago

    People also smoke way less now. See the skin of someone at 30 who started smoking at 15, to see someone who looks like 40.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
      78·
      8 months ago

      And everything around us smokes less too.

      In 1950 cars had basically no emission standards, factories didn’t either, and a LOT of people heated their homes with coal or wood.

    • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
      26·
      8 months ago

      Specifically, top panel man is smoking, bottom panel isn’t. That’s why they look like that. Mystery solved.

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      8 months ago

      It’s very much the smoking. That V Sauce video about it being clothing wasn’t convincing. Comparing just faces negates that possible perception issue. And when constrained to only faces people in the past still look older.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        14·
        8 months ago

        Hair styles also make a difference. And it’s all of the things, individually, that add up.